Violence between Israelis and Palestinians raged into a fourth day Thursday as rocket attacks on Israeli cities and airstrikes in the Gaza Strip pushed casualties higher on both sides.
Diplomats from the region, Europe and the United States scrambled to broker a cease-fire even as Israel said it had three brigades of ground troops on standby near Gaza, raising the potential for a devastating escalation of the conflict.
Violence also continued to spread beyond the aerial assaults. In street riots that erupted for a third night, bands of Arab and right-wing Jewish Israelis fought each other, police and bystanders in towns across Israel.
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